Country Must Be Country Wide

As country folks, we sometimes have this narrow mind set about where we live, whether it's pure country or just country. And most of us like to think we're pure country, so where we live is to but it isn't always pure country. Cowgirls and cowboys can live in the city, how you suppose to go to college to be a vet or a cowgirl photographer. Some cowgirls and cowboys just don't have the money to put down anything more than an apartment and don't have any choice but to live in town. I'm guilty of using this stereotype that country people have to live in the country. Yes, most do live in the country but not all of them and we forget that a great deal of the time.

The southerners and the Texans are gonna be extra stereotypical about this topic; I just know you. To explain in brief how I know you, I'm part Texan myself, but I've lived longer in the Heartland. It isn't hard to tell just how stereotypical all ya'll are either. If your in the South for just one week you learn the Southern or Texan pride, depending on where you go, and I mean us non-southerners spending a week.




Someday I would like to do a project just to show ya'll who can't make it out of your states because your livestock are the greatest joy in your life; which is one of the greatest rewards in life so I won't argue that. I would like to do a project that involves lots of photography, traveling, and gas money; which is an enormous amount of money for this cowgirl, so that is gonna have to wait. But there are places outside of the South, Heartland, and Montana that you would find surprisingly as country as you with real leather cowboy boots, Wranglers, and cowboy hats. And southerners, we ain't lost when we say we're country, we're just as proud as you.

Country Must be Country Wide

Grew up south of the Mason Dixon

Workin', spittin', huntin', and fishin'

Stone cold country by the grace of God

I was gasin' up the other day

An old boy pulled up with a license plate

From Ohio; thought "Oh, good Lord, he's lost"

From his Wranglers to his boots

He reminded me of Chris LeDoux

And that Copenhagen smile

Yeah, country must be country wide

In every state, there's a station

Playin' Cash, Hank, Willie, and Waylon

In foreign cars and four-wheel drives

There's cowboys and hillbillies

From farm towns to big cities

There ain't no doubt in my mind

Country must be country wide

It ain't where, it's how you live

We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give

The shirt off our back to anyone in need

We bow our heads before we eat

Before we start our day, before we fall asleep

'Cause in God we trust, and we believe

And we see what's wrong

And we know what's right

And ol' Hank, he said it all

When he sang "Country Folks Can Survive"

In every state, there's a station

Playin' Cash, Hank, Willie, and Waylon

In foreign cars and four-wheel drives

There's cowboys and hillbillies

From farm towns to big cities

There ain't no doubt in my mind

Country must be country wide

In every state, there's a station

Playin' Cash, Hank, Willie, and Waylon

In foreign cars and four-wheel drives

There's cowboys and hillbillies

From farm towns to big cities

There ain't no doubt in my mind

In every state, there's a station

Playin' Cash, Hank, Willie, and Waylon

In foreign cars and four-wheel drives

There's cowboys and hillbillies

From farm towns to big cities

There ain't no doubt in my mind

There ain't no doubt in my mind

Country must be country wide

Country Must be Country Wide

by Brantley Gilbert